ReviewScifi
Insignificant by Mike Morgan (book review).
The year is 2127; the Earth is dying, and nobody seems to notice or care. The United States government refuses to release any…
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May 2024
ReviewBooks
Fight Me by Austin Grossman (book review).
Super-hero novels are a bit of an oddity to me because I grew up reading about such characters in comic book form and…
ReviewScifi
Catspaw (Cat book 2) by Joan D. Vinge (book review).
Cat, the half-human/half-hydran psychic, believes he has neutralized his telepathy. He learns otherwise when Braedee, chief of security for Centauri Transport, has him…
ReviewScifi
Dark Shepherd by Fred Gambino (book review)
I first came across Fred Gambino’s name in 2011 when I found a copy of his art book ‘Ground Zero’ (2001) in a…
ReviewHorror
His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories About HP Lovecraft edited by S.T. Joshi (book review).
In a recent episode of the excellent ‘The Good Friends of Jackson Elias’ podcast, one of the presenters recalled a situation where a…
ReviewFantasy
A Guile Of Dragons (A Tournament Of Shadows book 1) by James Enge (book review).
James Enge’s ‘A Guile Of Dragons’ is the first book in the `A Tournament of Shadows’ series. As such it is not strictly…
ReviewHorror
The Glasshouse (Polestars 3) by Emma Coleman (book review).
This third volume of Polestars, titled ‘The Glasshouse’, is by Emma Coleman. I will admit that Emma Coleman is a new name to…
ReviewFantasy
The Forgotten Beasts Of Eld: 50th Anniversary Special Edition by Patricia A. McKillip (book review).
It is hard to determine what makes a book a classic. Previously, schoolchildren were required to read books by deceased male authors like…
April 2024
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Giggle by James Goss (book review).
The Earth is under threat. Everybody seems to want to fight everyone and they all think they are right and everyone else is…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris (book review).
‘Wild Blue Yonder’ works very well as a treatise on how hard it is to know a person; it’s also full of frantic…
ReviewBooks
Doctor Who: The Star Beast by Gary Russell (book review).
Having started life as a comic this reimagined ‘Doctor Who’ episode, ‘The Star Beast’, becomes a novel and so the printed word wins.…
ReviewBooks
Visual Storytelling: The Art And Technique by Tony C. Caputo, Harlen Ellison and Jim Steranko (book review).
I don’t always list books I ought to read in my proper list, which runs at some 4 pages. A lot of the…